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Today’s topic is very interesting and that is- “Job Theory”

What is job theory? How exactly did it come into existence?

Graeber, a professor at the London School of Economics and a founding member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has a new book called Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. He claims that millions of individuals around the world are toiling away in worthless, unnecessary jobs and are aware of it.

According to him, Bullshit jobs are jobs that even the people who do them can't truly justify their existence, but they have to pretend there's a purpose for them to exist. That's when the nonsense comes in. Many people mix up the terms "bullshit job" and "shit job," but they're not the same thing.

Awful jobs are bad because they are difficult, have poor working conditions, or pay poorly.In reality, in our society, the more valuable the task, the lower the remuneration. Bullshit jobs, on the other hand, are generally well-liked and well-paid, but they are absolutely useless, and the individuals who perform them are well aware of this.

He says as technology has progressed to the point where machines can now undertake the majority of complex, labor-intensive jobs. Instead of breaking free from the oppressive 40-hour workday, we've created an entire universe of pointless jobs that are both professionally and spiritually useless.

How are these jobs emotionally and spiritually corrosive?

We're always taught that people want anything for nothing, which makes it simple to condemn poor people and disparage the assistance system because everyone is lazy at heart and wants to take advantage of others.

However, the truth is that many people are being given large sums of money to do nothing with. This is true for the majority of middle-management roles, and the people who work in them are absolutely dissatisfied since they know their work is a waste of time.

The researchers discovered strong evidence of a link between a person's psychological well-being and their assessment of their job as pointless, although a correlation rather than a direct link. In 2015, workers in the United Kingdom who did not believe their employment was beneficial scored significantly lower on the WHO Well-Being Index than those who believed they were doing useful work (a mean average of 49.3 compared with 64.5)

Is the loss of vital employment as a result of automation a good or negative thing?

They could potentially be replaced with those who do not have work. Great economists like John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century, technology would have advanced to the point where we would have a 15-hour workweek, but this did not happen. Instead, we continued to manufacture nonsense jobs.

What if : We simply accepted that technology can handle many of the necessary duties and worked less? Spent more time doing what we really love to do instead of pretending to work for 40 hours a week at an office?

Will people be happier if these bullshit jobs are removed from existence?

There are numerous cultures in which people work three or four hours every day. During harvest season, you'd labour 12 hours a day, and during the off-season, you'd work two or three hours. The ordinary mediaeval serf worked far less than we do, and tribal civilizations around the world are no different.

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